House to finalize priority bills next week – BusinessWorld Online
THE House of Representatives would finalize its proposals for President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s legislative agenda when Congress reconvenes next week, as lawmakers await the new composition of the chamber’s leadership, its spokesman said on Monday.
“For priority bills, we have to wait for the organization of the House,” the chamber’s spokeswoman Priscilla Marie T. Abante said in a media briefing in Filipino. “Only then will the House leaders and party leaders begin discussions on the priority bills to be submitted.”
The Common Legislative Agenda is a list of priority bills jointly proposed by the Presidential Palace and lawmakers, and it would compose of measures that the government and private stakeholders want Congress to pursue.
“Although members of the House already filed their priority bills… the priority measures of the House, as an institution, will later on be discussed after the organization,” said Ms. Abante.
Lawmakers will convene on July 28 to formally open the 20th Congress, when Mr. Marcos is also expected to deliver his annual address before a joint session in the afternoon. — Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio